Season 36 Saturday Reruns

This Saturday's rerun unfortunately got pre-empted in much of the East Coast. CBS preceded their NFL game with a pregame show at 7:30 Eastern, although some stations moved Wheel to Saturday or Sunday afternoon. Many East ABC's, including mine, put Wheel in a 25-minute timeslot following the Bills/Texans game, which ran long and then went into overtime which even affected ABC primetime.

Looks like they're not the only station to start swapping the game shows. KABC Los Angeles is now doing it as well, at least on sports days with NBA sliding them back to the 9:00 hour. For the time being, Saturday Wheel is now at 9:00 on KABC and Jeopardy! at 9:30. This unfortunately means that Wheel will be pre-empted in part or in full when the NBA games overrun, because KABC's local postgame program Slam Dunk Saturday runs for an hour regardless of whether the game ends on time or not. Tonight's airing didn't begin until mid-R3. No idea why they're swapped now; they had no problem with the J! reruns often getting joined in progress or skipped when it was scheduled right after College Football (this also affected a first-run episode of J! that was delayed to Saturday by MNF).

Full list of West Coast NBA season scheduling coming soon.

magicman, you're up on February 15!

magicman your episode is rerunning I see. I'm glad because I didn't watch it. Mariners were playing that night at 7 on ESPN so I gave up on Wheel to watch them. Well guess what when your show reruns on February 15 I will watch. I already know one of your opponents won the $10K mystery prize because there is a video of that on the shows YouTube channel

Bad news, magicman ...

The hometown you stated on your episode suggests you watch Wheel on WPVI/6ABC out of Philadelphia, do you not? Unfortunately, WPVI won't be airing your rerun; they are pre-empting Wheel's time slot with coverage of the Philadelphia Auto Show on February 8 and 15. Their schedule doesn't have Wheel at all on Saturday the 15th or Sunday the 16th (although there is a listing marked "TBA" for Sunday the 16th at 2:00 PM).

However, most other cities will still be airing it at the usual time, and it looks like Souderton is not far from Allentown. Several TV providers and even over-the-air antennas in that area receive WBRE/NBC 28 out of Wilkes-Barre, which airs Wheel at 7:00 PM (not 7:30 like on WPVI) and will be airing your rerun on 2/15. Maybe try asking your nearby family or friends if they get this station?

^ Yeah, try testing it sometime this week to see if it picks up WBRE/NBC 28. You'll know if it has Wheel at 7:00, and it has a "WBRE" bug with the NBC logo in the corner. The NBC out of Philly, WCAU 10, airs local news at 7:00.

A couple other options:

- Try calling WPVI's programming department to see if they can air it Saturday or Sunday afternoon. They're a sister to WABC in New York and they frequently show Weekend Wheel during mornings or afternoons if something else is happening Saturday nights.

- Scout or call some restaurants or bars just north of Souderton and see if their TV's get WBRE, then come 2/15, your family could go out to a strategically-timed dinner there, or even go all out and have a second viewing party. You'd be the talk of the whole place!

The 7,000th episode is rerunning February 29.

Good news again.

WPVI reduced their coverage of the Philly Auto Show to just the first weekend, so Wheel's back on the schedule next Saturday!

A few scheduling updates...


1) WPXI Pittsburgh is once again relegating Weekend Wheel to 4:00 AM Saturday mornings. Although its local Steelers show is over, they now air a local show titled "11 on the Ice" focusing on the Penguins, which will likely air for the rest of hockey season. Jeopardy! is still staying put at 7:00 (naturally), and 4:00 AM airings of Wheel are once again absent from TV listings (they are listed as Forensic Files), but are listed on WPXI's website.


2)
Looks like this was a short-lived experiment. I forgot to mention this until now, but as of last Saturday 2/8, Wheel is back at 7:00 on all six days of the week on WLOS Asheville.


3) Weekend Wheel appears to have changed stations in Hawaii. While the weekday run airs at 6:30 PM local time on FOX affiliate KHON, starting this month, listings now show Saturday airings twice: at 6:00 PM on sister station KHII (MyNetworkTV), and the standard 6:30 on KHON. The KHON website only has the latter listing, with 6:00 on KHII being listed as a simulcast of KHON's 6:00 news.

I don't have access to KHII, but I do have KHON. It is 6:42 Hawaii time as I type this, and KHON is still showing local news, and their 6:00 newscast is not scheduled following a sporting event that may have run long. I am assuming that KHON has added extra local news on Saturdays and moved Weekend Wheel to KHII, but their website has yet to reflect this.

If this is permanent, this would make Hawaii the fifth market where Wheel's weekend run regularly airs on a separate station, following Baltimore, Syracuse, Atlanta, and Laredo. The former two also air first-run Wheel on FOX affiliates. This would also make KHII the third MyNetworkTV affiliate to currently carry any run of Wheel. Hopefully when next season rolls around, KHON will take more advantage of KHII and use it as a backup for airing Wheel when overrun from Thursday Night Football or the World Series cause the 6:00 news to spill into Wheel's slot.


4)
This was finally fixed as of 2/8. Saturday airings of Wheel are now properly listed on WREX Rockford instead of just appearing as TBA.

Some listing errors involving Weekend Wheel persist, however:
- As mentioned above, KHON in Hawaii (FOX) continues to list Wheel on Saturdays even though it is now apparently replaced with local news.
- As mentioned above, WPXI in Pittsburgh (NBC) lists Forensic Files in place of Wheel when it airs at 4:00 AM. Up until a few weeks ago, the 4:00 AM airings were listed as repeats of the Friday episodes, but now they're not listed at all. Standard 7:30 PM airings (should they happen anymore) are listed correctly.
- When KPVI in Idaho Falls (NBC) airs Weekend Wheel at the standard Saturday at 6:30, the episode listed is actually the one that aired four weeks prior. For example, the episode for 2/22 is listed as 12/6/18 from Winter Break week, which reran on 1/25/20. However, if Wheel airs in any other time slot, including tonight's airing which was delayed to 9:30 PM due to NHL, the correct episode is listed.
- WVNS in Lewisberg, WV (CBS) lists Saturday airings as a duplicate of the previous Thursday episode. This was due to a pre-emption during Secret Santa which caused them to air that week's Thursday episode on Saturday.
- KETV in Omaha (ABC) continues to list Wheel's reruns Sundays at 6:30 PM Central on KETV-DT2 (MeTV), in addition to the standard Saturdays at 6:30 on the main station. This is because Wheel was airing there during College Football season, but this was never removed after the 6:30 slot on ABC opened back up.